On Sunday night, Redd was nattily attired while his teammates worked up a sweat to beat his old Milwaukee team.

By Thursday, Redd could line up his work with his team's schedule. Suns coach Alvin Gentry said that Redd might make his Suns debut in home games Thursday and Friday nights against Cleveland and New Jersey. Gentry said he did not expect Redd to play Tuesday night on the road against the Los Angeles Lakers.

"He's getting close, not to being a 30-minute-a-game guy or anything but to the point where he can step in and help us," Gentry said. "When we get back (from Los Angeles), there is a possibility."

Redd would have liked to return to the court for the first time since April against the Bucks, his team for the past previous 11 years. After a second left knee surgery in March 2010, Redd returned to the Bucks for minimal action in their final 10 games last season.

"He was in good physical condition when we last saw him," Milwaukee coach Scott Skiles said. "He worked really hard to get back and try to get himself ready to play. For what he went through, to get come back and get into the kind of shape he was in was remarkable. Anytime a guy comes back from injury and gets back close to 100 percent, they've worked hard. Now if it's a significant injury and the same knee, somebody's working very hard to play gain."

Court to be treated

Since Suns forward Grant Hill slipped on the US Airways Center floor twice in the season opener, the slickness of the floor has been brought up on occasion by Suns players and even some opponents.

The Suns have cleaned the floor before the past three home games and added walk-off sticky mats behind each goal to address the issue but will refinish the floor while the team is in Los Angeles.

"We'll take the court to the Phoenix Convention Center and put a new coat of finish on it," said Alvan Adams, the Suns' vice president of facility management. "It'll give it a better look but we're not so much looking for aesthetics right now. It's the performance. It's going to make it grab more. That should solve it."

Free throws

Gentry on swingman Josh Childress falling out of the rotation with Hakim Warrick now playing backup small forward: "It's just hard because our leading scorer is a backup at his position. I wish there was a way. It's not an easy thing. He's got every right to be upset. I just don't know how I can get him into games. He comes to practice real professional and works his butt off but there are two guys in front of him right now."

- Gentry had planned to consider lineup changes Saturday but the 25-point win Friday night against Portland delayed or canceled any plans.

"I thought it was a complete game for us so we've got to see if that's something we can consistently count on," Gentry said. "We have to take another look at it to see if it's going to be something that's going to be there permanently or something that just happened."

- Skiles said Milwaukee star Andrew Bogut is expected to rejoin the team and play Tuesday. He was excused from the team for the past four games to address a family issue in Australia.